2014 in Ethiopia
The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Ethiopia.
Incumbents
Events
Ongoing
February
- 17 February – The Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 between Addis Ababa and Rome is diverted to land at Geneva in an attempted hijacking by the co-pilot who claims to be seeking political asylum.
April
- 16 April – Gunmen ambush a bus killing nine people and wounding six others in western Ethiopia near the Sudanese border.
May
- 2 May – At least nine students are killed in protests in Oromia Region.
November
- 4 November – In Johannesburg, Angolan journalist and human rights campaigner Rafael Marques says the African Union should move its headquarters out of Ethiopia because of concerns about freedom of expression there.
December
- 6 December – At least 70 drown when a migrant boat from Ethiopia sinks off the Red Sea coast of Yemen.
Deaths
- 6 March – Alemayehu Atomsa, 45, President of Oromia Region.